Svenska handelshögskolans bibliotek

Horatio Nelson's first captain was William Locker who recognised the exceptional talents of the young midshipman who was to become the most famous sailor in history. Thirty-seven y ...

Mercenary is a science fiction novella by American author Mack Reynolds, first published in 1962. It is the first in a series about Joe Mauser, a soldier in a rigid, caste-based so ...

War and Peace is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in 1869. The work is epic in scale, chronicling the Napoleonic war in Russia and is regarded as one of t ...

The Trumpet-Major is a novel by English author Thomas Hardy published in 1880, and his only historical novel. Our heroine, Anne Garland, lives quietly in a rural community deep in ...

The Time Traders is the first novel in The Time Traders series by Andre Norton. It is part of Norton's Forerunner universe. The Time Traders introduces the series' premise, a confr ...

Peter, Martin and Jack are three brothers who inherit three coats form their father. The last wish of their father is that they must never sell or alter their coats. In their early ...

In recent years the great powers of the West—primarily the US and UK—have most often been relegated to fighting “small wars,” rather than the great confrontational battles for whic ...

The Later Life is a novel by Dutch author Louis Couperus. The Later Life is the second of four novels that make up the quartet known as 'The Books of the Small Souls', the master w ...

Accustomed to spending fortunes on fast women and high living, Lord Wynchingham is horrified to lose a fortune in a card game and then finds that he is almost bankrupt. So when Tin ...

In his historical series Hinze provides the only comprehensive account of events on the central and southern portions of the German Eastern Front during the years of German retreat ...

When three male explorers stumble upon an uncharted land, they discover something they never expected—a society composed entirely of women, thriving without war, poverty, or inequa ...

“Their hands are shaking ever so slightly. They will be flying again in the morning”Vlamgat, literally ‘flaming hole’ in Afrikaans, was the nickname the South African Air Force (SA ...

The Girl with the Golden Eyes is a novel by Honoré de Balzac first published in 1834. In this novel, Balzac the virtuoso satirist depicts the levels of Parisian society as a versio ...

There is no current warship in the Royal Navy called HMS London, but vessels carrying the name have featured for better or worse in some of the most controversial episodes of Briti ...

It’s Friday the thirteenth and Detective Inspector Andy Horton’s luck is about to run out. His Harley-Davidson is vandalized, a strange symbol etched into the paintwork. A convicte ...

The Korean War (1950-1953) was the first - and only - full-scale air war in the jet age. It was in the skies of North Korea where Soviet and American pilots came together in fierce ...

Dodo, who is well-known from E.F. Benson’s bestseller carrying the same name, is now settled down. But Dodo has new problems in her life. Dodo’s daughter Nadine is only eighteen ye ...

Can a person born into a nomadic culture find a home? When Michael Mulligan and Maria Burke flee Ireland during the famine, she leaves her tyrannical husband, Nathaniel Burke, and ...

You know that feeling when you have just sent a text or an email to the wrong person? Well, in the 19th century the equivalent was a wrongly-directed letter - and there is no 'dele ...

Business magnate Roger Melton has passed on, leaving behind one of the grandest fortunes of his time. To the family's astonishment, Roger has bequeathed his vast estate to the blac ...

"Queen Lucia" (1920) is the first volume of E. F. Benson’s "Mapp and Lucia" 6-novel series. It is a comedy of manners, set in provincial Riseholme (Lincolnshire). Emmeline Lucas ru ...

"Queen Lucia" (1920) is the first volume of E. F. Benson’s "Mapp and Lucia" 6-novel series. It is a comedy of manners, set in provincial Riseholme (Lincolnshire). Emmeline Lucas ru ...

As World War II raged across the Russian steppes, in Africa and especially in the skies over Europe, elite German and Soviet forces fought a bitter battle in an isolated northern c ...

The first entry in Alcott’s wonderful ‘Lulu’s Library’ trilogy gets the series off to a flying start, packed with wonderful fairy tales, fantastical worlds and amazing heroes and h ...

Mrs. Dalloway is a novel by American writer Virginia Woolf. This book is considered a classic. It appears on many lists of best novels written including the 100 best novels list by ...